Ah, in the case of a buggy it was hickory, in the case of a wagon it was oak. The (…) many, many, many smaller and thinner pieces around the buggy are made of hickory. In ah, (…) also in sleighs or cutters and in wagons.

A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons.

That in that way we’d do our own bending in making a dash for the cutters. They always had a flair and a turn to them to catch flying snow from the horses feet. The cutter were always turned out towards the horse at the top. Sometimes they look like the letter S and which was a protection from the horse’s feet. Interviewer: Would there be any extra features that you would build into the cutter to make it warmer (…) seats’ material or something like that? Speaker: The seats were usually trimmed with plush or something that was warm to sit on in (…). There was not necessarily any foot warmers or anything like that built into the cutters, nor into any rig so far as that is concerned.

But my father had a horse-and-buggy and then in the wintertime he had a cutter.

A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons.

Speaker: But my father had a horse-and-buggy and then in the wintertime he had a cutter. With a, you-know, horse and used to drive in the wintertime with a a horse-and-cutter. Interviewer: Oh I see. Can you describe the cutter for me? I- I don't know what they look like. Speaker: Cutter? Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Yeah, no I could hardly explain- you've seen a buggy of course? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Well a cutter wasn't ah altogether like a buggy. It was more like um all in one piece you-know. There was a- a seat here you-know a place to put your feet. And then there was the ah- what's this they call- the shafts as they used to call it. You-know, kind-of shafts that they hitched the horse into it. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: And ah as I say, there- there was just like one piece. There was a seat where you dug in your (inc) you-know. You were very comfortable. Put your feet down here and you-know. And um this horse was attached to the- to the cutter. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And the same way with the buggy. Of course there's buggies here yet but not very many but you've seen them, haven't you? Interviewer: Yes, I have. And ah- Speaker: I- I don't think- I have never seen a cutter here for a long time. Only in pictures.

A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons.

And ah it was pretty cold. And when we'd go out in the cutter we used to have to bundle up and we used to have to- ah perhaps put bricks on the floor of the cutter. Heat them in the oven and wind them all around with flannel or-something, put them in the bottom of the cutter, keep our feet warm if we were going any distance.

Interviewer: Yeah? What did you use in wintertime? Speaker: A cutter. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What was it like? Speaker: There's a big round- oh, fancy made, it'd stand about that high though, and the runners come to around like this, and way back, and this thing come back nearly to your breast, see?